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After investing in the dating app Bumble and coding education startup Holberton School, Indian actress, entrepreneur, and investor Priyanka Chopra is now backing the online marketplace Apartment List. Joining Chopra as investors in the San Francisco, Calif.-based company are celebrities such as singer Lizzo, baseball star Alex Rodriguez, and basketball player Andre Iguodala, among others. Chopra was introduced to tech investing by her manager Anjula Acharia, a founder and angel investor who spent time as an entrepreneur-in-residence and partner at Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture ca...

Weights & Biases raises $45M for its machine learning tools Weights & Biases, a startup building tools for machine learning practitioners, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series B funding. The company was founded by Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis — Biewald and Van Pelt previously founded CrowdFlower/Figure Eight (acquired by Appen). Weights & Biases says it now has more than 70,000 users at more than 200 enterprises. Biewald (whom I’ve known since college) argued that while machine learning practitioners are often compared to software developers, “they’r...

Investors: Mercury Fund, SaaS Ventures, Nigel Morris, Dundee Venture Capital, Cincy Tech Many companies in this sector specialize in machine learning or AI-based tools, but Amify emphasizes its people-based approach to maximizing its customers' Amazon revenues. The company combines a human touch with a holistic approach to the challenges of selling on the platform.  "Most of our 'competitors' are focused in just one area or only have small teams of about five to 10 people. Amify focuses on end-to-end services and has a team of almost 80 people," said Ethan McAfee, founder and CEO. "We are ve...

Valtix Secures $12.5M in Strategic Investments Company also names CEO, VP of worldwide sales, and VP of worldwide operations. Santa Clara, CA - January 21, 2021 - Valtix, the industry’s first cloud-native network security platform, announced that it has secured $12.5 million in strategic funding from Cisco Investments, Northgate Capital and The Syndicate Group. These new investors join Trinity Ventures, Vertex Ventures and Wing Venture Capital, which committed $14 million in initial funding when the company launched in 2019. The new capital will be used to accelerate the company’s...

Valtix Secures Strategic Investments from Cisco Investments and TSG, Names Former Juniper and Big Switch Executive Douglas Murray CEO Customer Adoption Accelerates and Leadership Team Expands News provided by Share this article Share this article SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Valtix, the industry's first cloud-native network security platform, announced that it has secured $12.5 million in strategic funding from Cisco Investments, Northgate Capital and The Syndicate Group. These new investors join Trinity Ventures, Vertex Ventures and Wing Venture Capital, which committe...